I thought it was entertaining. Is it a movie that I'll talk about years from now? No, I tend to forget about it completely. I've seen it twice and enjoyed it each time, but it's the sort of movie you have on in the background while you're sitting around talking with friends.

If anything, I think Ford's acting took him out of his (recent) regular roles and I loved him for that.

ConConHead:I feel like the only person in the world (other than Mr ConCon) who liked that movie.

I liked it too. As somebody upthread commented, it was exactly as advertised. Cowboys. And aliens. And frankly, if you took away all the stuff about aliens it was a perfectly serviceable cowboy movie in its own right.

Also I thought that the special effects were above average. It felt like the actors and the effects shared the same physical space and were intertwined. Too often, effects-heavy movies have that "Look! Up in the sky!" vibe to them, where unremarkable things happen down on the ground while remarkable CGI happens on an entirely different plane and the two never connect -- like that notoriously badly-matted scene towards the end of Men In Black where agents J and K stand awkwardly in front of a blue-screened crashing alien ship, except extended to movie length.

Van Lente (with Greg Pak) managed to write a very entertaining and funny comic book run featuring Marvel's version of Hercules.It seems that rather unlikely feat raised my expectations excessively concerning the MST3K potential of this movie viewing.

You know, if you get really wasted and imagine that this movie is an alternate reality sci-fi thriller where Indiana Jones and James Bond have both forgotten their true identities and have to work together to save the planet, it still sucks donkey balls.